Sentences with phrase «coal plant operators»

In addition to stricter regulations, coal plant operators could very well have to contend with carbon dioxide (CO2) pricing within the next few years.

Officials said the new plan, which came after the E.P.A. received more than 2.5 million comments from the public and industry, will give coal plant operators more flexibility to meet the limits over several years.

The costs of the equipment needed to control acid and toxic metal emissions, such as flue gas desulfurization (FGD) and dry sorbent injection (DSI), play a significant role in retrofitting and retirement decisions faced by coal plant operators.

We will have to keep on waiting for modern, updated protections and coal plant operators face continued uncertainty over their compliance obligations — uncertainty that may actually accelerate coal's decline.

Divestment actions must also be based on absolute thresholds that exclude all of the top coal producers and top coal plant operators,» says Schuecking.

Investments in top coal plant operators are invariably investments in a 4 °C world,» says Yann Louvel from the NGO BankTrack.

The Global Coal Exit List not only covers all of the largest coal producers and coal plant operators, it also captures many of the specialized equipment providers, coal processers, traders, coal transporters and other businesses which are part of the thermal coal value chain.

This strategy would cut losses for all of Europe's 15 largest coal plant operators, except Italy's Enel and Romania's CE Oltenia.

Not exact matches

There are substitutes for oil, gas and coal, as many investors and power plant operators are discovering; there is no such thing for water.

«Simple operation and maintenance means no daily operator requirements and very little annual plant maintenance, says Mr Bambridge, whose company's installations of the FAST system have been proven in Australian applications including: Alcoa, BHP - Billiton, Bechtel Pacific, Blair Athol Coal, Blue Circle Southern Cement, Cadia Gold, Dampier Salt and Wakefield Colliery.

Environmental groups are concerned the new operators want to keep burning coal, when New York is so close to phasing out all of its coal plants.

When coal is burned in a power plant, operators make sure the fire gets plenty of oxygen so that it burns hot enough to produce the most possible energy and the fewest by - products.

While investment in China's power grid has risen substantially, the country still has some of the world's highest curtailment rates for renewable energy, meaning thousands of turbines are taken offline, even under optimum wind conditions, because grid operators lack the knowledge and skills to integrate the clean energy with other sources, including baseload power from coal plants.

... Because fossil - fuel power plants can not easily ramp down generation in response to excess supply on the grid, on sunny, windy days there is sometimes so much power in the system that the price goes negative — in other words, operators of large plants, most of which run on coal or natural gas, must pay commercial customers to consume electricity....

The NRDC cites the «2016 State of the Market» report by PJM, the largest grid operator in North America, as showing that «new entrant natural gas - fired combined cycle plants, combustion turbine plants, and solar are economical, but that new coal and nuclear plants are not.»

Mostly for reliability reasons, plant operators maintain stockpiles within certain ranges (usually about 50 to 80 days) even though coal supply disruptions of that duration are relatively unlikely.

In January, FERC, an independent regulatory government agency that is officially organized as part of the Department of Energy (DOE), thwarted a DOE proposal to require independent system operators and regional transmission organizations to establish «just and reasonable» rates for resilient and reliable plants, such as coal and nuclear baseload generators.

Five of the six regional grid operators and companies outside the coal and nuclear sector argued FERC should not issue a «universal resilience standard» or direct changes to plant compensation, instead allowing grid operators to identify and address resilience challenges independently with FERC guidance.

Many other countries also have requirements that grid operators priorities the dispatch of power from renewable sources, even if it is more expensive than coal - fired baseload plants.

The grid operator is also in the midst of a plan to let subsidized coal and nuclear plants leapfrog over competitors in bidding into that annual capacity auction.

Fukushima presented an opportunity for AGL Energy because it meant that Tepco, the plant's operator, was no longer in a position to invest in Loy Yang A and was a distressed seller of its one third stake in Loy Yang A. AGL Energy, which already had a 32.5 per cent stake in the plant, says Loy Yang A will remain one of the lowest cost generators in the NEM because of cheap coal at the doorstep — it pays just $ 6 / t for brown coal, which would give it a massive advantage over black coal generators in NSW, which are facing costs of $ 45 / t and will go higher in future years.

The PJM independent system operator (ISO) said there is no imminent danger to the grid when it was asked about the First Energy bankruptcy filing and First Energy's request of FERC for cost recovery for its nuclear and coal - fired power plants.

PJM vice president Stu Bresler said the plan described in the grid operator's November 15 report was in the works well before the Department of Energy proposed rules to guarantee cost recovery for coal and nuclear plants in the PJM region and certain other competitive markets.

The capacity market approach pays utilities and other operators billions of pounds to commit to keep their coal, gas, nuclear and hydro power plants open, for up to four years ahead, regardless of whether they were planning to do this anyway, and regardless of whether they generate any electricity.

Grid operator PJM has already suggested two ideas that could help failing coal and nuclear plants.

Basically, grid operators would have to prove why they shouldn't keep noncompetitive coal and nuclear plants online.

Figure 1 (Left): Example of a coal combustion power plant («Actual Generator Output») poorly following the grid operator's automatic generation control («AGC Command»).

Perry has filed a proposed rulemaking that asks the federal regulators (two of which are Trump appointees, with an additional two more pending Senate approval) to approve of the rule in order to allow power market operators to establish a new tariff for power plants that have a 90 - day fuel supply on site — a naked nod to coal and nuclear plants.

Operators of coal - fired power plants throughout the United States are currently developing strategies to comply with the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS).

But many states and regional transmission organizations and grid operators are already planning for a future with less coal, and are turning to increased transmission for wind and gas - fired power plants to demand response to meet future demand.

Projected retirements of coal - fired generating capacity in the AEO2014 include retirements above and beyond those reported to EIA as planned by power plant owners and operators.

Since the rule took effect in 2015, some coal - fired power plants have retired, but most operators chose instead to install control technology to reduce these emissions.

A June 5, 2000, item in Business Week reported that» [f] or 28 years, Seitz was also a paid director and shareholder of Ogden Corp., an operator of coal - burning power plants that stands to lose financially should the Kyoto Protocol become law.»

Two new federal air pollution regulations are expected to spur the closure of up to 69 aging, inefficient, coal - fired power plants, reducing both harmful air pollutants and emissions of the climate destabilizing greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide (CO2), according to an AP survey of US power plant operators and a preliminary Breakthrough Institute analysis of the likely impacts on CO2 emissions.